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Exploring the Eastern Frontier: A First Look at Mobile App Tracking in China

verfasst von : Zhaohua Wang, Zhenyu Li, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson

Erschienen in: Passive and Active Measurement

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Abstract

Many mobile apps are integrated with mobile advertising and tracking services running in the background to collect information for tracking users. Considering China currently tops mobile traffic growth globally, this paper aims to take a first look at China’s mobile tracking patterns from a large 4G network. We observe the dominance of the top popular domestic trackers and the pervasive tracking on mobile apps. We also discover a very well-connected tracking community, where the non-popular trackers form many local communities with each community tracking a particular category of mobile apps. We further conclude that some trackers have a monopoly on specific groups of mobile users and 10% of users upload Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to trackers (with 90% of PII tracking flows local to China). Our results consistently show a distinctive mobile tracking market in China. We hope the results can inform users and stakeholders on the interplay between mobile tracking and potential security and privacy issues.

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Among the top 500 apps, 29 mobile browsers are excluded in further analysis to avoid potential inflation or bias caused by web trackers bundled in web pages.
 
2
As mentioned in Sect. 2.3, we do not show the number of trackers of the browser apps.
 
3
Communities are groups of vertices that are well-connected internally while sparsely connected with others.
 
4
Every member in the lab was notified about this experiment and consented.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Exploring the Eastern Frontier: A First Look at Mobile App Tracking in China
verfasst von
Zhaohua Wang
Zhenyu Li
Minhui Xue
Gareth Tyson
Copyright-Jahr
2020
Buch
Passive and Active Measurement

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-44080-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-44081-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44081-7_19